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A dosage given in the final paragraph of this editorial by John C Stevenson and Malcolm I Whitehead (20 July, pp 113-4) was wrong. In recommending that the starting dose of oestrogen is kept low in women aged over 60, the authors suggest 1 mg oral (or 25 μg [not 50 μg] transdermal) estradiol 17β.
